SCHEDULE 3 Cooperation and Information Sharing

SCHEDULE 3 Cooperation and Information Sharing

Section 27

Interpretation

1

In this Schedule any reference to a function under an enactment includes a function under an instrument made under the enactment.

Local authorities, fire and rescue authorities etc

2

(1)     The regulator and a local authority must cooperate with each other in the exercise of their relevant functions.

(2)     The regulator and a fire and rescue authority must cooperate with each other in the exercise of—

(a)     any building function of the regulator,

(b)     any function of the authority under—

(i)     section 6 or 7 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004,

(ii)     the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, or

(iii)     section 13 of this Act, and

(c)     any other prescribed function of the authority.

(3)     The regulator and an FSO authorised person must cooperate with each other in the exercise of their relevant functions.

(4)     A relevant person may disclose information held in connection with any of their relevant functions to another relevant person for the purposes of a relevant function of either of them.

(5)     In this paragraph—

“FSO authorised person” has the meaning given by section 14;

“relevant function” means—

(a)

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